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>> i won't vote to raise the debt ceiling. and i have the titanium spine to see it through. >>reporter: congresswoman and presidential candidate michelle bachmann promise to go stand firm. >> because of opposition like hers, republicans in the house and plans to vote on package to raise the debt ceiling tonight. >> all of this means no deal and huge set back for house speaker boehner. >> despite his arm twisting he couldn't rally his party to support the plan. talk ticks down. until the country runs out of money to pay its bills. >> lillian is here to explain

how the republican deal unravelled tonight. lillian. >> it was a long night. house republican leader bought 19 box of pizza to get through it. but none matter. most conservative member of the republican caucus weren't budging. speaker of the house boehner expressed confidence he would get his debt ceiling bill passed. >> when the house takes action today united states senate will have no more excuses for inaction. >>reporter: as the day went on however it became clear speaker boehner didn't have the votes. g.o.p. leaders halted debate on the floor then spent hours convincing members of the tea party to go along but to no avail. >> republicans took advantage of the tea party express and tea party caucus when they seize control of the house and so frankly now the governing challenge is how do you translate anger against president into a governing coalition. thus far haven't been able to do that. >>reporter: boehner plan would have cut 900 billion dollars in

spending and raise the debt caeling by the same amount through next year. republican presidential candidate bachmann was among those who couldn't support it. >> i will reduce spending and i won't vote to raise the debt ceiling. and i have the titanium spine to see it through. e-the white house is clearly frustrated. tuesday dead lane for congress to the act and avoid unprecedented default. communication director dan pooip piper tweeted another day wasted while the clock tick and another time to compromise and reduce the deficit. >> stake are increasingly, rising by the day and start to wonder now the again the optimistic projection about they will find way they always do start to wonder what the way out might be. >>reporter: the house rules committee met late tonight looking to find more ways to slash spending hoping it will win over some members of the tea party. meeting of the republican members of the house is planned for tomorrow mornin morning. >> all right lillian reporting.

>> so what happens if congress can not agree on raising the debt ceiling? tax revenue will continue to flow into the treasury but not nearly enough. 178 billion dollars in august to cover 308 billion worth of bills. tough choices will have to be made. get paid and who doesn't. we learned top priority will be paying the interest on the existing debt. >> as of tonight apple has more cash than the federal government. at least on pavement u.s. treasury department says it now has 73 billion dollars in cash under the current debt ceiling. last week the cupertino company reported its cash reserve was nearly 76 billion. >> san francisco police say they have found the gun now that killed a man they were chasing in the bay view. police say this is the weapon that mean-year-old kenneth harding was carrying when he confronted officers on july 16. it's a 380 caliber semi-automatic pistol. sf pd uses a 40 caliber side arm. police believe that harding accidentally shot himself in the head after he suffered a

gunshot wounds to the leg during the shoot out with officers. police say they recovered the gun from unidentified bay view resident who may have taken it from the crime scene. but some community activist want access to that gun to make sure there is no coverup. >> we would have to see the an independent review panel just to see if that was the right gun. >> these are objective factual scientific tests and they are all lining up corroborating the stories of the officers and the independent witnesses to the event. >>reporter: there are 4 independent investigations already under way into the shooting. >> good samaritan shot early wednesday morning while feeding the homeless in east oakland has died of his wounds. tonight detectives are trying to find a motive for the murde murder. 29-year-old paris powell known as brother john was shot in the head when someone in the car opened fire on him and his family. his pregnant wife and young daughter were also wounded. there is now a small memorial on 47 avenue where the shooting took place. >> several bay area men being

called hero after coming to the aid of a pilot attacked on plane heading to san francisco. florida prosecutors filed felony battery and assault charges today against brothers luis and jonathan diaz of puerto rico. they punched the pilot after ordered off the american air lanes flight in miami. passengers say the brothers appeared to be drunk or maybe on drugs. >> we were all really scared. we knew that these guys were really weird in the beginning and shouldn't have been let on the plane >> there was a scuffle that took place if so about 3 or 4 of us went out there and tackled the guy. we just did what we needed to do to help out. >>reporter: the plane was still on the runway and had not yet taken off. good samaritan held the two men down for 10 minutes in the terminal until authorities took them into custody. >> man faking an emergency has been arrested on kidnapping charges. police say that isaac forced his way in a woman car in novato. 62-year-old victim says the suspect yelled something about a pregnant woman going into labor tonight

when this happened. the victim drove down 101 and exited at alameda del practiced 0where she stopped the car and started screaming. the suspect ran away. he was arrested short time later. police believe the same man may have tried to flag down other drivers before he was captured. the fate of california voter enacted ban on gay marriage could be decided this fall. california supreme court has scheduled a september 6 hearing on proposition 8. at issue whether sponsors of the measures have the authority to fight rulings against it. if the governor and attorney general refuse to pea. the question is pivotal to the 2008 ban. both former governor schwarzenegger and former attorney general jerry brown refused to challenge the ruling that struck down the law. >> in the deep end and in deep trouble a south bay father and his daughter nearly drowned in a community swimming pool. firefighters say had it not been for the heroic action of 2 men the pair would not have survived. lisa reports from san jose. >> took it 1 or 2 steps right

on up and went over and girl was right down here. >>reporter: jeff bail didn't think twice about the 7 foot high sharp fence that stood between him and a little girl who lay unconscious on the other side. she and her parents were guest of a resident at regency park town homes. one minute the 6-year-old was on her father's shoulders in the pool and the next there was silence. >> he climbed into the pool and he didn't see them. it was dark. so he noticed a shadow at the deep end of the pool. he immediately swam over to it looked under the water and saw them at the pwol of the pool together. very traumatic. >>reporter: he is unnamed hero no. 1. he's also the resident the family was visiting. he single handedly dove and brought both the girl and her 44-year-old father back up to the surface and that's when jeff bail hero no. 2 stepped in. >> mother of the girl if said she didn't know how to do cpr so i took over. >>reporter: high school social

studies teacher has taken several cpr classes. within a minithe little girl was breathing again and so was her father. witnesses say he was responding very slowly. >> the gentlemen was i wasn't sure he was breathing but his eyes were literally rolling up. >> i talk to the guest who brought them in. she said he swims pretty well but not an excellent swimmer and she said as far as she knew there was no if heart condition. >>reporter: still not mostly clear how the father and daughter ended up at the bottom of the pool. but both are resting at home tonight. in san jose abc 7 news. >> coming up hear next. digging up evidence. investigators tearing up the streets in one peninsula city. and then this. subpoena. >> it's been a summer of smash and grab. what these men took in this brazen robbery. >> and what hotels are now hiding inside the towels and robberies in your room. >> then later on "nightline".

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>> closed captioning brought to >> closed captioning brought to you by mancini sleepworld. >> police have found at least one marijuana cultivation site near the area where a park police officer was attacked earlier this week in the east bay. regional park officer was on routine patrol south of mile an hour ago a when gunmen opened fire on him. officer fired back and called for help. he was rescued by an armored vehicle. extensive search of the area took place. aerial surveillance has now uncovered at least one active grow site there although it is still not clear if it is related to the shooting. >> the search for clue into the san bruno pipeline explosion is being done underground this week. pg&e digs up a section of pipe abandoned since the mid 19 fwichlts as reported at one time it was part of the line that exploded last september. >>reporter: pg&e digging up a section of pipe that has been in the ground since 1948.

unused since 1956. that's when line 1 32 was rerouted a bit to accommodate the new housing development. c p uc wants to take a look at pipe from the original line 1 32 as part of its investigation into the explosion along segment of the replacement pipe. 8 foot section will be cut out on glen view north of carry mont handed over to the c p uc. another excavation point 250 feet south west. just feet from the rupture site at glen view and earl. this is so a camera can inspect the inside of the entire length of abandoned pipe. >> basically put the camera in one end and 7 it at the other end. >> ntsb says the september rupture started on one of multiple poorly done weld so pg&e records had shown a seamless 30 inch sealed pipe. the report will be issued on the probable cause in about a month from ntsb. explosion and resulting fire killed 8 people and destroyed 38 homes. bob

peligrini house was one of them. now it is well on the which to being rebuilt. >> good to see all the houses that are going up. i herd there's like 5 more if close to it going the permit pull. it's just nice to get the neighborhood the kind of back to somewhat some normality. >>reporter: he's anxious to know what the ntsb and c p uc discover in their investigation. >> it has been a real draining experience. like something i'm not, you know, i never thought i would have to take on. but that's how life is. it happen happens. the the problem is the that i think it could have been avoided. i wish this never happened. >>reporter: pg&e excavation is expected to be completed by friday evening. this is abc 7 news. the san jose youth organization is reeling tonight after the theft of dozens of fishing poles. 100 rods and reels stolen from the fishing in the city program at lake cunningham park. program gives

children free access to the equipment at special events. the distinctive fully rigged pole are candy apple red with sticker that say provided by the rotary club of san jose. >> thieves in the north bay targeting vallejo schools and stealing copper. 7 schools have been vandalize 14 times since may. franklin middle school has been hit particularly hard. criminals take copper wiring and pipe from the school 4 times now. twice in the last week alone. damage will cost the district at least 100,000 dollars. >> frightening smash and grab robbery caught on tape. watch this. fichlt it's just a shock and awe where they co-qñ in. hit the cases. use intimidation. or in this case several cases pepper spray. >> it is the latest in a string of smash and grab robbery in the los angeles jewelry district. there have been 8 in this area this month alone. most recent case they got away with 7000 dollars worth of costume jewelry and escaped in

a waiting get away car. investigators believe the crimes are motivated by the rising praise of gold. >> 150 people are now out of work after jackson ranch casino cut 10% of the work force. officials at the am door county ka sean 0say the cut back come at the same time as 100 million dollar renovation. even though the casino is adding new restaurants, slot machines and other amenity they are still down sizing. casino laid off 115 employees back in 2009. growing number of hotels are using radio frequency chips to keep those plush robes and towels disappearing. company that says trackable linen hotel lose 25% of the linen every month. hotel guest are taking bath robe, bed sheet, bath mat, pal towel that sort of think. chips are season into the fabric and read by sensors up to 6 feet away. one hotel in hawaii started using the chip and began saving 16,000 dollars a month. fichlt so far unseen

comet may hurdle toward planet earth. this is an artist image of what it could look like. astronomers at nasa aims in mountain view say dusty fragment from the comet penetrated outer solar system. the location is unknown making difficult to say when it approaches earth but nasa says it could be on a collision course with earth. they also say a collision is extremely unlikely. >> don't start building my shelter just yet. something to think by. let's talk about the forecast. as we inch closer to the weekend. >> sandy its here with some warming trend. >> that's right. tomorrow we are going to see temperatures inching up a little bit in our inland areas. today numbers inland with in the low 90's. warm summer day. 93 in apartment i don't care. got up to 91 for livermore. 90 degrees in concord. morgan hill. around the bay mainly 70's and 80's you can sea here novato 84 degrees. it was 82 in san jose. where the fog

hung around mess of the day temperatures were in the 60's. let me show you what it looked lick later on in the evening. once the sun was heading towards sunset actually i should say high definition sutro camera showing you a beautiful view of san francisc francisco. you see month diablo in the background. clear indication that it is summertime. fog on one end. sunshine on the other. this is what we are going to see repeat tomorrow. it's a wide range of conditions as we head into the next couple of days. numbers rate now in the 50's and 60's. antioch reporting 78 degrees. still warm there fog near the coast and bay tonight. warmer inland to. relook at mild to warm weather for the weekend. here's look at the water vapor imagery. upper level high pressure system over the desert south west. hot air mass associated with it just close enough to the bay area that we are going to see some warm days inland. but with this circulation around the high in

a clockwise fashion we see some sub tropical moisture move into the sierra nevada. this monsoon moisture in the summer time tends to bring about some thunderstorms. so if traveling to south lake tahoe, yosemite, las vegas thunderstorms expected this weekend. very isolated for your friday afternoon but going to become pretty likely on saturday and sunday and scattered in nature for the tahoe yosemite area. that very same moisture will bring us some high cloud over the next come el days. so look for fog in the morning along the coast locally inland. temperatures mainly in the 50's except at antioch we are expecting low of 60 degrees. here's are the highs for your friday in the south bay yes for san jose. 82 degrees this santa clara a.mid 80's for cupertino campbell los gatos. 87 degrees. beautiful day on the peninsula. 76 in san mateo o. 81 for palo alto, mountain view, low to mid 60's right near the coast and the fog will be around so temperatures not changing whole lot near the beaches. downtown san

francisco 66 degrees. sunset district 63 you will see lingering fog well in the afternoon. look at the high for the north bay. 82 in santa rosa. 87 for calistoga. the ukiah up to 98 degrees. lack at this. coastal area in the 60's. from 60 to 98. that's pretty wide range of conditions here. east bay 72 in oakland. 80 agrees for castro valley. if going to be inland short sleeve weather for you. 95 in brentwood. 93 livermore and arun the monterey bay 68 in monterey, 91 inland and gilroy. here's the 7 day forecast 30 degree spread from coast to inland. that wide range continues for the first part of your weekend and then sunday temperatures slip a little bit but not much. minor changes expected as we head into next week but really 60's to 90's. nice wide range. >> lots of sun. >> thanks. >> coming up next. big plans for this abandoned south bay field. >> how the biggest employer in

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on your cell phone or digital camera and then up load to it you report so that we can tell your story here on abc 7 news. cisco systems wants to and the expansion plans in north san jose. that's according to the silicon valley business journal. cisco the city largest employer, wants out of an agreement to develop more than 1 million square feet. the company developed about a third of the site but never moved in. city council will vote on this request next week. develop easters of the fruit dale station apartment community in san jose say they are ready to ex pan. next step is to add 80 rental units to the tight san jose rental market. it is -- is israeli company creates messaging icon for smart phone lacking for an office in mountain view. they have 4 million users. more on the headlines in tomorrow print edition of the silicon valley business jawrnl if you want to read more. >> great night for the giants. big debut for carlos. he

wasn't great but the giants are they in the head to the phillies now maybe they are after tonight's game. 49 ers will hold the first practice tomorrow. michael crabtree won't suit up. >> really? won't suit up. >> really? >> sports next. there are z z z z z z z z z z zz if

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dddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd >> gechlt giants take 2 out of 3 from the first place phillies. making this more impressive is the fact that the phillies had not lost two in a row at home since april. first look at beltran in a giants yawn form. they didn't face the ace in the series but sandoval not going to complain about thavlt down the line against kendrick and gone in the second 1 nothing giants. after bout with the flu tim returned tonight. get nothing and like it f.6 scoreless. as for beltran struck out a couple times but contribute entered writ feed. sliding catch on a rollins fly ball. awkward but he's okay. giants flash the leather. they fire t.too high. if the score. stewart is racing around as howard lumber after it. about the beating

the taking. tigers whip. hers bell trap on joining the if team. >> i'm happy to be here. enjoy my time and i think i'm glad to be part of team that already have something going for them. >>reporter: a's and ray. going for a sweep. still smoking today in the first. david 2 run triple into the corner. 3 zip athletic. more more more next batter connor jackson. 2 run bomb off davis who survived the carnage of the a's 5 run birth. so 5 zip athletic and ray all the way back to whip. 7 runs in the seventh. jennings. smoke in a pair here as he goes to right field off brad zigler and tampa bay avoids the sweep 10-8. raiders put the padres on first time today training camp. new head coach hue jackson not pleased. although he had to be happy with the rookie starting

at center holding his own against veteran seymour and kelly. jackson unhappy with himself he said the tempo of the first practice should have been faster. >> i told them i apologize because i don't think we are going fast enough. truth be told i am being honest. i told them i let them down day. i'll sign for the 49 ers first practice is tomorrow and receiver michael crabtree already hurt. out 4 to 6 week was a foot injury. chronic foot problems. hurt in one of the player organized work out back in june. likes lake the forty-niner signing pro bowl kicker david aircrafts who spent a dozen years with the eagles. one other bit of niner news. cut corner back clemens who didn't live up to expectation, eight year 80 million dollar contract. at the time highest defense player in league history. changes for the nirns. >> yes thanks larry. >> "nightline"is up next. >> for all of us here, thanks for joining us everyone. >> appreciate your time. see for joining us everyone. >> appreciate your time. see you

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